Race and ethnicity

Are Asian college applicants systematically discriminated against? Are law schools to blame for unhappy black lawyers?

A new trial will determine whether Alabama's public colleges and universities are sufficiently desegregated.

Montana State U. does some soul searching after 2 former athletes are arrested on murder charges.

After years of study, Education Department issues plan for colleges to report racial and ethnic data without forcing students to choose one category.

Three Hispanic employees of Rio Hondo Community College -- an institution with large Chicano enrollments -- are charging institution with illegal bias.

College Board reports largest drops in SAT scores since 1970s as well as a decline in test takers, apparently from low-income groups.

Enrollment increase is led by gains for women and African Americans.

Education Department releases enrollment predictions, showing slowing college growth rate and continued prevalence of women.

Enrollment of black freshmen at U. of Kentucky rebounds from last year's drop, but officials know harder work is ahead.

When Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's Supreme Court decision three years ago upheld the use of race in admissions, most college officials were jubilant. Absent the use of some preferences, colleges said, competitive institutions would experience a sharp drop in black and Latino enrollments.